Legal Services

WHAT IS LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA?

Legal Services Alabama (LSA) is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower Alabama's low-income community from ten offices located in: Anniston, Birmingham, Dothan, Florence, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Opelika, Selma and Tuscaloosa.

HOW DOES LSA HELP PEOPLE?

• By providing representation on critical legal matters in judicial and administrative forums
  
  
• By providing timely legal counsel and advice
  
  
• Through community education about rights and responsibilities ("preventative" law)
  
  
• By providing effective mediation services that help clients and keep disputes out of the court system
  
  
• Through development and distribution of legal self-help materials and forms
  
  

WHAT LSA CAN'T DO:

As a recipient of federal funds, LSA is restricted by Congress as to some of the work it is allowed to do. LSA:

• Does not handle criminal cases
  
  
• Does not accept fee-generating cases that private attorneys are willing to accept on a contingency fee basis
  
  
• Cannot collect attorney's fees
  
  
• Cannot do class actions, rulemaking, lobbying, litigation on behalf of prisoners or represent certain categories of aliens